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Editor's reply to "Memory recovery and therapy"

Published 4 November 2015

• Our concern for real cases should not make us credulous about all past claims – especially those triggered by dangerous and outdated psychotherapy methods. The National Health Service records of Carol Felstead, whose death in the UK we discussed, show that she was at times “heavily sedated” on diazepam during psychotherapy sessions. And Elizabeth Loftus works on&colon; in 2013 she implanted memories in people with “highly superior autobiographical memory” (doi.org/8nh).